Fixing permissions problem (slow startup)

Troubleshoot permission problems that makes After Effects start very slowly or display an error message.

Issue

After Effects takes a long time to start (or issues an error message or crashes) because the permissions for the Adobe preferences folders have been set incorrectly. After Effects may report that QuickTime is not installed or warn that it could not create a certain preferences file.

Workaround

In the following location, set the entire Adobe preferences folder and its contents to read/write: